hi, Since TSCII moved to ver 1.7, I modified the TSC Akaram font to the new encoding and uploaded it on my homepage at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~mksarav...
Hello, Vanakkam to you all. I am trying to install Tamil fonts on my KDE2.2 desktop on Mandrake 8.2. I have managed to install avarangal3 and tscakaram fonts ...
Hi, After you set the fonts and locale, you have to restart kde once. But check it out, whether you have set all the fonts to tscakaram. Change the standard of...
Hi Vivek, Thanks for your pointers. But I still couldn't get it to work. Last time I got all the required Tamil RPMs after I had installed Mandrake. I thought...
... /home/mukund/.kde/share/fonts/override,unix/:-1,/home/mukund/.kde/share/fonts ... a) Check whether the fonts are in iso8859-1 xlsfonts | grep -i tsc should...
Hello Mukund, Try the following: Go to --> Preferences --> Look & Feel --> Fonts. As you have already chosen the tamil fonts as instructed in the howto, you ...
Hi Mukund, I added the Tscii fonts in /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ and I added this path in /etc/X11/XF86Config file(in RedHat), it was working...
Vivek, Thanks. I finally got it to work after my post yesterday. I just had to change the font size to 11 - may be I do not have 12 size fonts installed. Now I...
Is there any documentation I can go to with regards OpenType support in Linux? I'm partucularly interested to know if Type-1 flavoured OTT fonts are supported....
Muthu Nedumaran
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Apr 12, 2002 7:54 am
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... Truetype support in XFree86 is provided by the freetype library (http://www.freetype.org). Although FreeType1 had code that supported OpenType layout...
Vasee, Do Pango and FT overlap in functionalities? Do they both include rasterisers for TT fonts? My take would be that Pango would fall back on FT for ...
Muthu Nedumaran
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Apr 13, 2002 1:26 am
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Dear all, I read help files in our web page 'tamilinix' which carried an interesting information to me. That, we have to adjust the linux kernel in order to...
... rasterisers ... Exactly. Pango does the shaping, and calls on the appropriate backend for glyph rasterization (in the case of truetype/opentype, it uses ...
... interesting ... to carry ... query is - ... accepted ... We already have console input, see the consoleTamil package in the Files section of this group for...
While on this subject Vasee, if Pango has a backend to X11 bitmaps, is there a way to implement substitution with BDF fonts? I know were moving away from...
Muthu Nedumaran
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Apr 14, 2002 2:52 am
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... bitmaps, is ... Ofcourse, there is. It is called the PANGO X11 font property hack. One of the Pango developers, Robert Brady, had a webpage describing it...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the tamilinix group. File :...
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May 16, 2002 4:09 am
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Dear Friends: I am enclosing herewith a call for papers for presentation at the next Tamil Internet 2002 conference. Fifth Tamil Internet international ...
Anbulla Nanbargale, Below is a good exchange on all the perspectives of training new users. Come let's have the whole spectrum of open-minded Tamils who are...
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May 19, 2002 9:53 pm
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Hi, Can anyone please tell me how Tamil render in KDE.As far as I know QT doesn't have a renderer like Pango. So only a document based on font encoding can be...
Sorry folks, This person was clever to send this advertisement, misusing the file upload permissions, in our group. Therefore I had to remove him from our...
Hi Friends, I wants to settup a web site fully on Tamil. I want complete info on which font and software to use and how to add tamil search facility. Thats all...
Anbulla Thamil Innaiya Nanbargale, Here's a chance to leap-frog the Tamil world, by us being the first vernacular group that is very savvy in leading and...
Hi Muthukumar, ... It is true that there is no central repository for scientific papers in Tamil. However, there is a Yahoo group dedicated to Tamil scientic ...
Anpulla Nanbargale, Please read and if it concerns you, forward on to your friends. anbudan../bala bala@... Bill Gates & Tamil Society By Bala Pillai,...